Facebook and Google, multi-billion dollar corporations that mine your private data for money, are apparently very concerned about the Ebola virus, because they are "socially active" companies. So they are asking—nay, guilting—their users for money to "help" "stop" and "fight" Ebola.
Craig Spencer, the New York-based doctor who tested positive for Ebola last month, will be released from Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital tomorrow morning, according to the New York Times.
More than 18,000 nurses in California are planning to strike for two days beginning Tuesday over concerns about how prepared they are to deal with Ebola. According to Bloomberg News, the strike would affect 21 hospital and 65 clinics, all owned by Kaiser Permanente.
Amber Vinson, the second Texas nurse to contract Ebola last month, is getting better but reportedly lost her engagement ring to the virus.
Susan Sherman quit her job at St. Margaret Mary Catholic School in Louisville, Ken. this week after the school—fearing Ebola—demanded she take "precautionary leave" and place herself into 21-day quarantine following her mission trip to Kenya. There apparently was "strong parent concerns" that Sherman might have been…
Add "making your son think he's dying" to the list of things people will do for the Vine. These parents put on protective masks, took their kid's temperature, and told him he had Ebola. Then they put his tears of fear and shock as he confronted his own mortality on the internet. He wasn't viral, obviously, but now the…
A cop car and a group of journalists are apparently tailing Kaci Hickox, a nurse who worked with Ebola patients in West Africa but has not shown symptoms of the virus, as she continues to do things other than quarantine herself.
Happy National Tim Cook Coming Out Day! How have you been celebrating? I have been reading the angry responses from homophobic assholes, like this prick and this one. In times like these, it feels prudent to note that if you are a man who has not sucked dick, you are no authority on what it feels like to have a…
A nurse who was forced into a mandatory quarantine in New Jersey by Bruce Springsteen fan Chris Christie is now back in Maine, but she's not staying inside.
In a press conference yesterday, moist ham and governor of New Jersey Chris Christie waved aside concerns about the treatment of a nurse, Kaci Hicox, who his government involuntarily quarantined despite her not having Ebola, by saying that she had "access to the internet, and takeout food from the best restaurants in…
Chris Christie, an antagonistic noisemaker who happens to be in charge of governing the state of New Jersey, was in Rhode Island on Tuesday, campaigning for the Republican candidate for governor there. Reporters asked him what he thought about potentially getting sued by Kaci Hickox, a nurse Christie forced into …
Kaci Hickox, the nurse who returned from Sierra Leone on Friday only to be forced into "inhumane" quarantine in Newark, is now being permitted by New Jersey governor Chris Christie to self-quarantine at her home in Maine. Hickox tested negative for Ebola on Friday.
A five-year-old boy who returned from Guinea Saturday night is being tested for Ebola at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, according to the New York Post.
A nurse who recently treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone says she was forced into an inhumane hospital quarantine, despite testing negative for the virus.
Kaci Hickox, the nurse who arrived at Newark International Airport from Sierra Leone on Friday only to be placed under mandatory 21-day quarantine, has penned a story that describes her arrival, the poor management by airport staff, and the Ebola panic that ensued after Governor Christie instituted the new mandatory…
A woman who arrived at Newark International Airport from West Africa has tested negative for Ebola, New Jersey state health officials say. She is currently in isolation at the University Hospital in Newark.
So far, because there are only three of them, it's easy to feel reassured that those potentially and actually infected with Ebola in New York are in safe quarantine. Bellevue insists it had a biohazard protocol all ready and waiting; there is nothing to worry about.
As Ebola panic spreads in New York City, here's some good news: The two Dallas nurses who contracted the virus earlier this month are now free of the deadly disease. This morning, health officials in Maryland announced that Nina Pham, the first nurse diagnosed, has tested negative for Ebola. The announcement comes…
Have you heard? Ebola is here in New York City. Dr. Craig Spencer tested positive for the virus last night after taking the L, 1, and A trains, riding in an Uber, and bowling at Gutter in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Your mom is freaking out!!!
At least three people who came into contact with Craig Spencer—the doctor who tested positive for Ebola Thursday night after returning from Guinea—have been placed into isolation. The New York City health department said in a statement yesterday that disease detectives are currently working to retrace Spencer's every…
